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Lunch and Learn 2024/2025

Lunch and Learn // Jewish Life & Antisemitism in Today’s Germany // Feb. 20, 2025

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT, United States

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan Germany is today home to about 120,000 people who identify as Jews: less than one percent of the world's Jews and to less than two-tenths of one percent of Germany's total population. But for obvious historical reasons there is great interest in Jewish life, as well as antisemitism, in contemporary Germany. Alan Steinweis, Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, will share his insights into that subject based on his extensive experience living in Germany and teaching Jewish history and the history of the Holocaust at... Read More

Lunch and Learn 2024/2025

Lunch and Learn // Artists & the Holocaust: Documentation, Memory, Elegy // Mar. 20, 2025

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT, United States

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan Janie Cohen, past Director of UVM’s Fleming Museum, will provide an illustrated talk about the work of several artists who experienced the Holocaust directly or indirectly. Cohen will also focus on two of the former, Henryk Ross, who clandestinely photographed life in the Lodz ghetto while serving as the Jewish Council’s official photographer, and Hannelore Baron, a New York artist who witnessed Kristallnacht as a child and escaped Germany with her family. About OZ's Lunch and Learns: In-Person in the Ohavi Zedek’s Social Hall. No Zoom unless conditions change, but a number of... Read More

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